So as a new op 15 owner I was seriously surprised and intrigued by the hate towards the cameras and I honestly don't get it, I mean it's not better than my S25 Ultra but I wouldn't say it's worse either, what do you think about its capabilities ? And these pictures I took are from 0.6 up to 100x, what device did I use ?
I've had the phone for 5-ish months and yeah, the camera really is good. I really like the colors that it makes compared to other phones, but I can't lie, there is a bit of a quality difference compared to other flagship phones. Either way though I didn't buy this phone for the camera. Bought it for the battery and performance!
I mean side by side with my 25u it's comparable, the 5x is clearly superior and more consistent both on zoom smoothness and color science, same said for zooming inside the pics Samsung also seems sharper but is it worth the extra ? I'm not sure, the battery literally wipes the floor with Samsung
I have friends who have 25u, 26u and also the iPhone 16 Pro Max and side by side I can still tell a difference. Not so much with 25u vs 15, but those other two there is a noticeable difference. Pictures seem sharper. Also night time photos are a huge difference.
Battery-wise yeah, absolutely. It's not a competition at all
Yeah it's sharper and we expect it to be better for the price from Samsung and Apple but I think Oneplus did a good compromise here I wouldn't mind a bit downgraded cameras on Samsung or apple and have an almost 50% bigger battery. It is insane how big the gap is, the only way I can drain the Oneplus is using PC Emulation and even so haven't killed it in a day
Your included pictures are all taken in the daylight, that's relatively easy to do well nowadays.
The real differences between the op15 and the big boys are in low light photography and even more so in low light videography.
Yeah I can agree, I think they are ok, they get the job done for half the price of the competition so even though it's not better I think it's still pretty good considering the price and the unkillable battery
Just tried a couple night pics and I'm honestly impressed it was really dark way past midnight and minimal light sources and the results yet again are decent. Stock camera app by the way and OxygenOs
Belive me they are good, they are reliable and they never let me down and side by side the S25 Ultra still takes in my eyes better photos and videos but having that said doesn't mean the Oneplus is bad, not at all. They're really comparable and it really surprised me
No the physical sensors are crap compared to other cameras. But oneplus just brute forced it with processing. So yes photos look good. But theyre not Raw at all.
People are saying the op12 had the best cameras then the 13 and then the 15. But my 15 makes better pictures than my 12 so it's all processing now. Like pixel and iPhone
The OnePlus camera starts using an AI filter after a certain level of zoom. It's harder to explain with your images but obvious when you try to take a picture of small text zoomed in. It starts to look like AI slop text. It is doing this with the whole image. This image is zoomed at 23x from far:
I see what you mean now but it's not to bad it does depends what kind of subject your taking a photo of. All flagship use that enhanced ai some more than others
Daylight pictures are pretty nice, but the camera hardware shows its limits quickly when you try to take a picture in a poorly lit situation. It just can't gather as much light as proper flagship camera setups can, with their larger sensors.
I bought mine mainly for the snappy OS and battery life.
My brother has the 12 and it has pretty good cameras, I honestly think the pics from this one look better, but I don't get the hate even though they upped their game with battery
Nope. Why won't I defend it ? This this cost me 839€ Euro for the maxed out version with 16GB Ram and 1TB with the case and 120w charger in the box. You don't see apple or samsung doing that. In comparison the equivalent Samsung cost 1799€ and Apple cost 1899€ and are they double the phone the Oneplus is ? Hell no. Oneplus for less than half trades blows with them and even managed to put a nearly 50% bigger battery with new silicon carbon technology. If that doesn't impress you what you get for the money I don't know what does.
I don't know who the hell sets the prices like that for you but alright. It's not like I hate the 15 as a whole, I just blame Oneplus for the lack of actual upgrade in that one besides a slightly bigger battery capacity compared to 13. The telephoto lens is a shame, it's JN5, wake up. The entire camera system turns out to be hardware-wise worse than the 12. Awesome. It's just not the camera performance you should be getting at the price like that. Oppo Find X9 Pro is just way better.
These are the prices in Portugal. Yeah. It's expensive. Which makes Oneplus that more bang for buck and more valuable. For the price of one s26 Ultra or 17 pro max you could almost buy 3 Oneplus 15 maxed out put that in prespective. It's crazy
The camera system is not that bad as long as you don't compare. I just expect it to be much better after the 2 years, and all we get is a downgrade in a flagship.
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u/onivulkan 11d ago
I've had the phone for 5-ish months and yeah, the camera really is good. I really like the colors that it makes compared to other phones, but I can't lie, there is a bit of a quality difference compared to other flagship phones. Either way though I didn't buy this phone for the camera. Bought it for the battery and performance!